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U.S. President George W. Bush and first
lady Laura Bush lay a wreath into a reflecting pool at the site of the
World Trade Center in New York September 10, 2006, during a ceremony to
commemorate the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001
attacks.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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BEIJING, Sept. 11 -- U.S. President George W. Bush has
visited New York's Ground Zero, exactly five years after the September 11
attacks.
Bush and his wife Laura, as well as New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and state Governor George Pataki
walked into the site where the twin towers once stood. Bush laid wreaths at two
dark pools of water in the footprints of the north and south towers, which
collapsed in the attacks.
The fifth anniversary comes two months ahead of
congressional elections. The Democrats are hoping to wrest control of Congress
from Bush's Republicans. And analysts says this has triggered a partisan battle
over whether the country is vulnerable to a similar September 11-type attack.
And, whether the Iraq war has been a distraction from efforts to eliminate al
Qaida and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
(Source: CCTV.com)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S.
President George W. Bush on Sunday left Washington for a series of activities
including tours of the three 9/11 attack sites in the next 24 hours to mark the
catastrophic event occurred five years ago.
According to CNN Television, Bush attended a prayer
service at St. Paul's Chapel in New York, across the street from the Ground
Zero, where 2,749 died when the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed
after being hit by hijacked airliners.
Before that, the president laid a wreath and made a few
comments at Ground Zero. |
